fieldpiece
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Pioche who shouldered the brass fieldpiece, and passed before the general on parade.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
Lee took position at the farmhouse, and his men, with a fieldpiece which General Greene had sent them, were stationed on the eastern slope of the high plain on which Fort Motte stood.
From Elsie in the South by Martha Finley
They artfully caused an old brass fieldpiece to be left on a wharf near the scene of our late operations.
From The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge
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